Author: Alan 5B4AHJ
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) was accepted into the United Nations in 1991.
In July, 1995 ARRL announced the addition of DPRK to the DXCC List. QSOs from 1995-05-14 count for this entity.
DPRK is a whitelisted DXCC entity. The following table lists stations known to have been QRV from DPRK, and which are thought to be good for DXCC credit.
The callsigns below are the only ones that Club Log will map to DPRK, and only for QSO dates within the exception date range. These callsigns have been taken from QSL cards.
Callsigns not listed below, or QSOs outside the exception date range, will be not be mapped to North Korea, but will be mapped as INVALID.
Please advise any missing DPRK callsigns, to Alan, 5B4AHJ, email address on QRZ.COM, or via the Help Desk .
| Call | Date/Note (follow callsign links to see exact dates, QSLs and additional notes) |
| P5/OH2AM | 1995 - May |
| P51BH | 1999 - April |
| P5/4L4FN | 2001 - November to 2002 - November |
| P5/3Z9DX | 2015 - December |
| Planned operations that did not happen | |
| P51DX | 1996 or later |
| P5/HA0HW | 1996 or later |
| P5/KA2HTV | 2005 - August |
| Operation by JH1AJT & JH4RHF | JH1AJT & JH4RHF installed a station in Pyongyang. However, they were never allowed to turn on the rig. |
| P5A | 2002 - March. Operation by YT1AD http://www.eham.net/articles/3355 " "we had fun listening to all the pirates pretendingto be us, when we did not make a single contact." |
| 2010 - August/.September | |
| Operations that did not count | |
| OK1DTG/P5 , P51DTG | 1992 - April to June |
| P5RS7 | 1992 - December |
| P51HA, P51VK, P57VK | 1996 - July |
| HM0DX | 2000 - April |
| P5/3Z9DX | 2017 - April/May and 2017-08-25/26/27 - pirate operation. |
Acknowledgements & references
ARRL DX Bulletin ARLD010 (1996)
DXCC Sleuth P5 - North Korea
hamgallery.com North Korea, Asia
LNDX Corée du Nord
SCDXC BULLetin October, 2010
Wikipedia Amateur radio call signs of Korea
Wikipedia North Korea
and a little DX story: Where's the P5?